Ep. 511 - Matt Parker

Matt Parker is a stand-up comedian, #1-best-selling maths author and a YouTuber with over 1.3 million subscribers and over 100 million views. He is a regular on Discovery’s Outrageous Acts of Science and BBC Radio 4’s More or Less and has been heard and see on BBC2’s QI, on BBC Radio 4’s Infinite Monkey Cage and The Museum of Curiosity and he created the BBC Radio 4 comedy show Domestic Science. His latest book Love Triangle was a New York Times best-seller and was his second book to be a #1-best-seller in the UK. Matt has previously held world records for both the Rubik’s Cube and Space Invaders. He has flipped a coin 10,000 times, traveled to Antarctica, memorised π to hundreds of digits, and been stung by a bullet ant in the Amazon, all in the pursuit of maths. His new show, Getting Triggy with It: Matt Parker Does the Maths, will be at the Edinburgh Fringe and then at venues around the UK this Autumn 2025, culminating in a huge show in London’s West End.Matt Parker is our guest in episode 511 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Buy tickets for Matt’s show “Getting Triggy with It” at Edinburgh and on tour here - https://standupmaths.com/shows .Check out Matt’s Youtube channel, Stand-up Maths, here - https://www.youtube.com/user/standupmaths . Follow Matt Parker on Twitter/X & Instagram @standupmaths .Follow My Time Capsule on Instagram: @mytimecapsulepodcast & Twitter/X & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter/X: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass The Peas Music .Artwork by matthewboxall.com .This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people .To support this podcast and get all episodes ad-free, please sign up here - https://mytimecapsule.supercast.com. All money goes straight into the making of the podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.